Investec

-	Responsible for architecting a holistic Data Strategy for the Client Technology division that includes 
        modernization using Azure cloud technology, that enables Data engineering, Data analysis and Data 
        Science as well as Data Quality, Reference Data Management and Metadata Management. 
-	Aligning closely with the Group Data Strategy for Data Mesh
-	Architecting a data platform for each platform team within client technology.
-	Working closely with Application Owners and Product Owners and Other BI divisional teams.
-	Presenting Client Data Strategy and Progress at Technology Roadmaps
-	Responsible for putting together a team of Data Engineers, Data Analysts and Data Scientist to 
        enable the delivery of the Data Strategy
-	Leading a Data Team
-	Mentoring Graduates in Data Engineering, Data Analysis and Data Science.
-	Designing the data security model for accessing data from each of the data products in each data 
        platform.
-	Managing 4 data platforms in Client Technology
-	Responsible for developing a data literacy program within client technology.
-	Creating and managing budgets for all data analytics platforms and other data tools used in client 
        Tech.
-	Making data available to the whole of Investec in a form of data products

Data Architect and Data Lead - Client Technology

-	Responsible for designing the data architecture for any projects presented at the solutions design 
        forum.
-	Building relationships with key stakeholders
-	Understanding any data issues and finding solutions
-	Managing reference data for Private bank
-	Making sure we source data from SOR and not SORef.
-	Designing the data quality solution for single of client project (Risk Entity Information Store) for 
        Investec North (UK) and South (SA)
-	Developing Data Models for the single view of client by working closely with the entity data subject 
        matter expert

Data Architect - Private Bank IT

Absa Group

-	Drive/Lead Stakeholder Engagement and value alignment to enable team and or myself to be able to fulfill the business data need. 
-	Regularly meet with business unit representatives to identify, interpret, document/review business requirements, and needs through interaction in the form of meetings or JAD (Joint Application Development) sessions. 
-	Perform a formal quality assessment of requirements from business with the project manager and my team members (Information Analysts). 
-	Identify the potential information sources required by the business users and what enhancements must be done to satisfy the required business need.
-	Decide on the best technology to deliver the change and liaise with either;
      •	Streamsets development team
      •	Kafka development team
      •	Oracle development team
      •	Hadoop development team
      •	Denodo development team, 
while carefully balancing
      •	Patterns
      •	Requirements
      •	Elegance and 
      •	Concepts
-	Document and present cost analysis to business. 
-	Facilitate prototyping of Solutions (data and technical)
-	Ensuring consistent delivery in alignment with compliance, risk and information governance through designs and the monitoring of the development of the designs, included is  
      •Data Quality 
      •Metadata Management 
      •Master Data Management 
      •Data Profiling 
      •Transformation Rules 
-	Create Source to Target Mappings for data ingestion into Hadoop/Teradata
-	Perform ETL testing (structure and data accuracy testing)
-	Lead and manage knowledge sharing team Mentoring

Skills and Knowledge Acquired in this role:
-      Apache KafKa
-      Hadoop
-      Spark
-      Scala
-      Becoming a precise communicator
-	A good listener
-	Relationship skills
-	Adapted to dealing with different opinions
-	Improved decision making

Information Analyst & Data Modeller

Rand Merchant Bank

-	Leading the Informatica team
-	Manage Informatica/Integration changes
-	Leading Innovation within Integration to accommodate the changing IT environment within the team and the bank.
-	Improve Integration Operations process.
-	Deﬁne Integration Standards.
-	Advice and deﬁne implementation of Integration layer.
-	Mentor ETL team.
-	Develop POC's for architects/team on improvement of integration layer.
-	Develop POC's for team and architects on a new product of Informatica e.g BCB239 for
Informatica (Metadata Manager).
-	Deﬁne technical speciﬁcations standards for our domain and ensure team adherence.
-	Ensure all ETL solutions adhere to enterprise/data architecture standards and designs.
-	Ensure all technologies used are within the Enterprise Architecture stack.
-	Perform technical solution reviews.
-	Ensure integration auditing is well designed to prove and adhere to BCBS239 standards on
-	Technical lineage and data completeness.
-	Support Data Stewards on development and maintenance of the Business Glossary for Business
-	Lineage to adhere to BCBS239 standards.
-	Ensure resolutions to technical audit ﬁndings.
-	Ensure all minimum process documentation is deﬁned and available.
-	Ensure technical solutions are stable and scalable to meet business needs.
-	Plan for overall integration performance testing after software and or hardware upgrades.
-	Plan for DR (Disaster Recovery) and maintain, ensure backups are available.
-	Contribute to RMB Integration Landscape and road map Innovation.
-	Research disruptive technologies and how they can and will change the landscape of Integration
within our environment.

Skills Acquired in this role
-      BCBS239 
-      Apache KafKa
-      Hadoop
-	Growing out of development role
-	Great relationship with Architect(s)
-	Wide knowledge in Tools, Techniques, troubleshooting/debugging
-	Adept at creating technical specification
-	Adept at build and configuration management

Lead Integration Developer

Barclays Africa Group

Led the Integration Implementation
Sign-oﬀ all functional speciﬁcations from Business Analysts 2.
Understand high level ACM (Algo Credit Manager 5.2.0) model 
Understand ACM Databox structures.
Loads based on product procedures stated.
Adhere to best practices of ETL development.
Managed the ETL testing with 4 testers
Error handling - Minimal RTB (Run the Bank) intervention (Overnight Support) 
Administered the Scheduling of all ETL processes Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Master Reference Service - Interfacing with the master reference service 
Understand and challenge how the master reference service is exposed to the ETL.

Lead ETL Developer

OpenSymmetry

SPM Consultant (Integration)

Data integration, ETL/Mapping, ETL migrations.
Writing and analysing complex SQL queries.
Troubleshooting performance bo  lenecks in code Supporting and Maintaining the Automated
Suspicious Activity Monitoring System (ASAM), Sonic (Client data), ODS, CCE (Credit) XML &
MQ Messaging (MQ Visual Editor, MQ Explorer)Liase with BA's to contribute to the speciﬁcation
process to ensure a quality end product.
Data analysis - had to understand the business in order to be able to perform data analysis.
Data modelling. 
Working knowledge of ODS and Data Warehousing concepts. 
Production Support.

ETL Developer (Informatica)

Liberty Life

Establish the best method of extracting the required data from the Compass relational database and
our internal Finance and Warehouse Databases which involves liaison with business analysts as well
as other systems developers (mostly using PL/SQL packages as OWB was discontinued).
Systems testing of procedures/packages prior to handover to business area(s) for their acceptance
testing.
Running monthly loads using WebSphere DataStage Director V8.1 to rebuild DB2 tables and SQL
Server 2005 tables and load data from data sets created from ftp'd text ﬁles.

BI Developer

Absa Bank (Absa Towers)

Design the ETL Process using Oracle Warehouse Builder 9i and 3i.
Liase with client, Project Manager and Business Analysts.
Proof check the spec from the systems analysts.
Document testing as proof to production team.
Proof test the development work for my team members and sign it oﬀ before it is taken to
Production.

ETL Developer

To contribute my knowledge and skills in Business Intelligence and Consulting related areas with
emphasis on integration, analysis and Architecture. To apply these in an environment in which
these skills are valued and valuable. To have and to create opportunities to improve and broaden my
skill set to ensure that I continue to be an asset to colleagues and to the organisation.

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